Liberal senators try to avoid consequences of their vote for Obamacare

Question for Senators Franken, Schumer, Kohl, et al.: If the medical device tax in ObamaCare is such a job killer that even you clowns tried to water it down (opponents of Obamacare were against it altogether), why in God’s name did you vote for it? Why didn’t you use the clout just one of you had as senators –all 60 of you were needed for passage– to have it removed and spare the workers of your states the risk of layoff and the consumers the certainty of higher prices? And what about all the other “job-killing taxes” hidden within Obamacare?

Sixteen Democratic senators who voted for the Affordable Care Act are asking that one of its fundraising mechanisms, a 2.3 percent tax on medical devices scheduled to take effect January 1, be delayed. Echoing arguments made by Republicans against Obamacare, the Democratic senators say the levy will cost jobs — in a statement Monday, Sen. Al Franken called it a “job-killing tax” — and also impair American competitiveness in the medical device field.

Two other Democrats, senators-elect Joe Donnelly and Elizabeth Warren, also signed the letter. Donnelly voted for Obamacare as a member of the House. Warren was not in Congress at the time.

“The medical technology industry directly employs over 400,000 people in the United States and is responsible for a total of two million skilled manufacturing jobs,” the senators wrote in a December 4 letter to Reid. “We must do all we can to ensure that our country maintains its global leadership position in the medical technology industry and keeps good jobs here at home.”

If I weren’t a softie and sympathetic toward the victims of your stupidity, I’d say I hope the tax stays right where it is and that you then have to answer to angry voters for it.

Sigh. Long ago, legend has it, Pandora unleashed a wealth of ills on the world by opening a box out of curiosity. The same could be said for Obamacare — after all, we had to pass it to find out what was in it. But maybe, again like Pandora’s box, a small bit of hope for the PPACA’s repeal was also released: With all the taxes unleashed and all the regulations engendered by this abomination, maybe people will become so annoyed and angry and frustrated that they’ll demand its repeal.

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Keep in mind items like the “Cornhusker Kickback”, “Louisiana Purchase”, and exemptions for cronies that helped passage of Obhammudcare. Some of the devices are used in the veterinary business, like those chip implants “the rich” use to keep track of their poodles and other curs of lesser degree. We know the GOP will be blamed for the current fiscal impasse; blaming Bush the past four years was simply a case of “inserting the thin end of the wedge first”. What has these folks quaking in their boots is the fallout that will reach a crescendo about the time of the 2014 mid-term elections.

Just like when we are told every four years, “Elections have consequences” (usually to remind people that presidents are the ones who nominate SCOTUS replacements), votes in the Senate (and House) have consequences, too, and if these sleazebucket know-nothing intellectual- wannabees that can’t read don’t want to be on the hook for what they voted for, they should have changed it when they had the chance or not voted for it to begin with.

Live with it, suckers – the rest of us have to, it’s time for you to pay the piper, too.